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Table 5.2: Suggested Investment categories
Category Development & Needs Classes of
Number
No. Towns
Investment Emphasis of towns
NSDP NCPGDS
1 High Development Established • Basic Service
Potential
Low Human Needs
Growth Centres • Infrastructure Capital 32
2 High Development Emerging • Basic Services
Potential
Growth • Infrastructure Capital 49
High Human Needs Centres • Social/Human Capital
3 Low Development Stagnating • Social/Human Capital 21
Potential
High Human Needs
Small Towns
4 Low Development Special Case • Basic Services 13
Potential
Low Human Needs
Towns
5 - Transitional • Adaptable in regard to -
Towns
nrs 1-4
6 - Traditional • Moshaweng requires
Rural
Settlements
further investigation 154∗
∗Number of settlements registered in the 2001 Population Census
5.2 Proposed Leader Towns
The centres that will serve as the main growth engines for regional and social development in
the province are identified with reference to the findings of this study. Table 5.1, as well as all
the previous tables, maps and histograms supplement such a complex evaluation and decision.
The spatial location of the selected towns are also considered to mobilize optimal trickledown
benefits for the surrounding lower order towns with only a marginal development
potential and high community needs. The challenge to devise a more equitable spatial
development strategy for the province could be tackled via rational choices for future town
development and appropriate investment strategies. In this process the provision of services
over the entire provincial space could be structured more efficiently.
A starting point for a selection of towns for substantial Infrastructural Capital investment are
the following six established growth centres: Kimberley, Upington, Kuruman, Springbok
and Colesberg, while either Calvinia or De Aar could be added on account of their
accessibility and centrality in the vast Karoo region. Other towns could also be considered and
added in the same way depending on the special niche to be filled, but it is doubtful whether
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